During apartheid, Jurgen Schadeberg worked for the leading black publications of the time. This way he had access to the likes of a young activists, like the lawyer, named Nelson Mandela. Iconic pictu
Appollon, a historian, presents a biography of British imperialist Cecil Rhodes within historical context and in relation to how he represented the age of increased colonialism in the late nineteenth
Botros provides the fundamental knowledge necessary to understand how to design and analyze basic digital logic systems and to know how to simulate these systems using hardware description languages (
Photographer Chuck Forsman used an old-fashioned Leica film camera to take these black and white photographs of his dog going for walks, mostly in the city streets, parks, and natural areas around Bou
This is a slightly oversize (9.5x11"), attractively produced, abundantly illustrated presentation of all aspects of forest flora and fauna in Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Republ
In the Hindu world-view, threshold is a profoundly important concept that represents a passage between one space and place and another, creating a visual bridge between the secular and the sacred. Acc
There are a few landmark works and authors in the history of urban management and public health administration, from John Snow and his account of the Broad Street cholera epidemic onward. One of the l
Being a Hollywood star isn’t everything when there’s still a lot of kid in you. For 40 years film and TV’s big names were kids again playing baseball in the annual L.A. Dodgers Hollywood Stars Night
This is the second volume of two-volume work examining the concept of costless inputs to wealth creation. Costless inputs are scarce, create value, cannot be purchased, and, the author argues, must be
Drawing on the folklore and mythology of India and Nepal and inspired by author John Jackson’s travels in those countries, Tales for Great Grandchildren is an enchanting collection of 13 illustrated s
The Great Plains is one of Earth's greatest ecosystems. Comprised of short- and tall-grass prairie, it extends from the Canadian Arctic south to Texas and from the Rocky Mountains in the dry west to t
Containing around 100 recipes and 21 sauce recipes, this book includes both traditional and classic dishes, as well as several 'nouvelle Irish cuisine' recipes.
Taking pages from books of nature, art, and architecture, Rachel Fletcher provides visual designers of all disciplines and art forms with geometric methods and techniques for composing spaces and plac
Where the Streets Have 2 Names: U2 and the Dublin Music Scene 1978-1981 features hundreds of previously unpublished photographs of U2 (by award-winning photographer Patrick Brocklebank) from the band'
The late Pienaar, who was the head of Kruger National Park in South Africa beginning in 1978, offers a comprehensive history of the park from its origins as the Sabie Reserve in 1898 up to 1946. Chapt
Established by Fee Halsted and Bonnie Ntshalintshali in 1985, Ardmore Ceramic Art is world renowned as South Africa's most successful ceramics studio. Ardmore's artists produce handmade, colorful, hig
Head of the Zoology Department at the U. of Pretoria for 31 years (1954-1985) and chairman of the National Parks Board of South Africa for 15 years (1979-1994), Eloff sites his involvement with the pe
Richardson combines the research of many different scholars and researchers on the life and work of Edward Thring (1821-1887), proclaimed “the most original educationalist” and schoolmaster during his
Kostiner is a Chicago-based photographer who became involved with the National Fatherhood Initiative, travelled to community-based NFI programs, and met with and photographed fathers and children. Thi
A cross between memoir, biography, and coffee-table photographic history book, this volume covers the author's visits to, and photographs of, WWI battlefield sites and the American Battle Monuments Co
This is a masterly, immensely readable and totally convincing narrative of 500 years of this great and mightily important British industryIn fact, this new book describes with great insight and clarit
This reference gathers entries on 92 indigenous plant species of the South African veld and their uses in South African folk medicine. Entries give botanical and common names and describe various uses
Set against the backdrop of World War I and amid the beautiful Cornish countryside, this is the story of a mother and daughter, bound together by a collection of pressed flowers and the memories they
First settled in the 6th or 7th century BC, Samarkand has known periods of prosperity and decline – its craftsmen traded and settled as far a field as the Chinese borders, and its great military leade
Weeds Don't Perish is a memoir which combines the political with the personal aspects of the life of someone growing up in Palestine in the 30s and 40s, and living there and in the new state of Israel
Tabatabaian presents students, academics, researchers, and professionals working in a wide variety of contexts with an introduction to the fundamental physics, characteristics, and common models of tu
Zillij: The Art of Moroccan Ceramics represents an outstanding photographic record of Moroccan ceramics and cut tiles, with written contributions from leading art historians and architects specialisin
Distributed by International Publishers Marketing, this horizontal-format book showcases the black and white and color landscape photographs of Gary Freeburg, following in the footsteps of National Ge
For entomologists, students, and general readers, Scholtz (entomology, U. of Pretoria, South Africa) and Holm, a retired professor at the U. of Pretoria, provide a systematic account of all of the maj
London, early 1950s. Marcia Beasley of St John's Wood is discovered dead in her home, naked and covered with a coal scuttle. Detective Sergeant Greenleaf is tasked with solving the crime and bringing
The Skeleton Coast of Namibia - an area once feared and shunned because of its treacherous coastline - is now prized as a place of beauty and tranquility, a place of magnificent solitude.Apart from th
This 10.5x9.5" book on the Anglo-Boer War features a wealth of b&w historical and contemporary photos of artifacts, sites, key figures, and maps. Changuion (history, U. of the North, South Africa)
The Magaliesberg mountains are more than two billion years old - one of the oldest mountain ranges on the planet – and the book traces their creation and the changes in the landscape over this vast pa
Set in small-town 1960s, The Country Doctor’s contains four interweaving stories and portrays the scandals and tensions of a year in Everham. Follow Shelagh, a doctor with a desire to not only prove h
In the words of author Dianne Stewart, 'African proverbs reflect both the past and the present, and are as relevant to contemporary society as they were to traditional society.' As with so much of Afr
The Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca is a journey of self-discovery and an exploration of man’s relationship with the Creator. Mecca is located in an arid land where nothing grows, and few, if any, earthly di
Nell got up and walked away from the unmarked grave, glancing back just once over her shoulder. I will be home soon. Cousins Sylvie and Nell have always been rivals. But when the Nazi occupation of Fr
June is a busy month for Sal Kilkenny, a private investigator who has been hired to find Janet, a missing wife and mother; Berfan, an Iranian citizen not seen since his case for asylum failed; and the
